The police surrounded the building in the center Podgorica where businessman Aco Đukanović lives, Podgorica Vijesti reports.
According to Vijesta, the inspectors will search the property of Aco Đukanović, the brother of the former president and prime minister of Montenegro Milo Đukanović.
In the same building, on Vuka Karadžića Street, there is also a branch of Prva Banka, owned by Đukanović.
Aco Đukanović is considered one of the richest people in Montenegro. At the end of 2006, he bought the shares of Nikšićka banka, which a year later he changed its name to Prva banka Crne Gore.
From the beginning of the bank's operation until the replacement of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in August 2020, state companies, numerous ministries and other state institutions, local governments and businessmen who were close to the then ruling party had deposits in the First Bank.
In 2012, the analysis of Prva Banka's operations was also carried out by the Organized Crime and Corruption Research Network (OCCRP), whose reports listed a number of allegedly illegal activities of the bank, which, as they state, were "detailed in thousands of pages of secret banking documents" in OCCRP's possession.
"The documents reveal corruption, greed and incompetence. When concluding these transactions, the bank did not respect the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering, its own rules, nor did it follow good banking practice," the statement added.
In one of the criminal complaints filed by MANS (Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector), the Special Prosecution asked the Special Prosecutor's Office to check the operations of Prva Banka when it comes to granting unusually favorable loans, including a multi-million dollar loan to Darko Šarić, who was convicted in Serbia for drug smuggling.
OCCRP's texts state, among other things, that for Prva banka Šarić was "a reliable client who came to their aid during the crisis by making a term deposit of millions at a time when the bank was barely fulfilling the orders of the depositors".
Source: News / RTCG
